..iii) Preparatory states modulate both the behavioral performance and the evoked and induced synchronous patterns that follow. (iv) These results indicated that first-person data can be used to detect and interpret neural processes...

..Future studies are needed to further investigate the impact of compassion training on these circuits...

Regulation of the neural circuitry of emotion by compassion meditation: effects of meditative expertise

Antoine LutzUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 3:e1897. 2008

..Together these data indicate that the mental expertise to cultivate positive emotion alters the activation of circuitries previously linked to empathy and theory of mind in response to emotional stimuli...

..In combination, these findings illustrate the usefulness of systematic mental training in the study of the human mind by revealing the neural mechanisms that enable the brain to successfully represent target information...

A comparison of mindfulness-based stress reduction and an active control in modulation of neurogenic inflammation

Donal G MacCoonWaisman Center for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 9:e97551. 2014

..Previous studies have found that meditation training over several months is associated with improvements in cognitive control and attention...

..When observers suppressed the relevant eye movement to the stimulus, EEG activity was enhanced on the right hemisphere, showing the more pronounced effect on the right occipital-temporal and central-parietal electrode sites...

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